netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] Revert "phy: IRQ cannot be shared"

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Message-Id: <20160825.165440.1378074913181996224.davem@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 Aug 2016 16:54:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...hat.com>
To:     xander.huff@...com
Cc:     f.fainelli@...il.com, sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, brad.mouring@...com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, nathan.sullivan@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Revert "phy: IRQ cannot be shared"

From: Xander Huff <xander.huff@...com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 16:47:53 -0500

> This reverts:
>   commit 33c133cc7598 ("phy: IRQ cannot be shared")
> 
> On hardware with multiple PHY devices hooked up to the same IRQ line, allow
> them to share it.
> 
> Sergei Shtylyov says:
>   "I'm not sure now what was the reason I concluded that the IRQ sharing
>   was impossible... most probably I thought that the kernel IRQ handling
>   code exited the loop over the IRQ actions once IRQ_HANDLED was returned
>   -- which is obviously not so in reality..."
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xander Huff <xander.huff@...com>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Sullivan <nathan.sullivan@...com>
> ---
> Note: this reverted code fails "CHECK: Alignment should match open
> parentesis"

That's fine, we can fix up the indentation later.

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.